Time The Sat from satflare.com <https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=satflare.com> is a reasonable substitute (after selecting ReSync on the menu) Next to last on the menu is "Audio time" which gives voice calls every 10s and beeps every second. -------------------------------------------------------- Björn Gimle, COSPAR 5919 59.2617 N, 18.6169 E, 51 m Satellite observation formats described: http://www.satobs.org/position/IODformat.html --------------------------------------------------------- Den lör 20 juni 2020 kl 19:48 skrev Tom Wagner via Seesat-l < seesat-l_at_satobs.org>: > I really wish I knew how to modify or could find an app for my smart phone > that could be set to go off at a particular time to the second, not just to > the minute. Does anyone know of an app that I can download that has that > option? I literally read a couple books about app development tio try to > create my own but gave up. > > Many years ago I scheduled seeing a mag -8 iridium flare myself then > having a guy on the phone who would see the same sat flare just over 3 > minutes later, hundreds of miles south of me. To help coordinate the timing > I recorded my voice on a portable tape recorder giving a countdown for me > then for him. I started the recording a specific minute before and I had to > be diligent in making sure everything was recorded at just the right time > when I made the tape. Not a particularly easy task, but it worked very well. > > Having a talking customizable alarm would be too much to ask but being > able to set one to go off as 21:23:45 for example, would be better than > having it go off at 21:23:00 then counting 45 seconds in my head. > > Thanks. > > Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for > Windows 10 > > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l > _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Sat Jun 20 2020 - 13:13:37 UTC
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